We received a lot of complains from the newer and not so experienced players in Quake Live during our last few cups, so we'll organize another Duel Cup but this time for players only below 1400 dueling Elo points! (referring to QLRanks). The first edition takes place on European servers. You can already sign up, and make sure to have a stay on IRC at #infectedGaming while the cups proceeds. Of course you can participate at the regular duel cup to get a higher challenge, but if you lose in the first rounds you can try out this one and maybe you'll win! So even if you have above 1400 ELO points but you lose in the first round of the infected Duel Cup, you'll get a seat in this cup. Have fun & enjoy your time!

Ha I was planning to do a simular tournament in the future, good job :)
Just make sure you take the ELO at the time of the tournament announcement and forbid any accounts registered after today. (Even though since there are no prizes I don't think that's really necessary)

really nice, the idea was there, but nobody (including me) was stepping up to do it. Everybody is copying the same tournament format and map pool time after time and they just change the name (sometimes they even call it amateur cup, while everybody is allowed to participate)… Then we speak about helping new players, while we are so elitist.

Thank you! Even when we are able to start our new league project, I will still try to arrange this tournament if there is interest in it :)
The bad thing is that a lot of new players out there don't use ESR or IRC... and they don't know this is about to happen :S

This is great news for me as a 1200 elo player with limited time to improve yet still wanting to compete.

The initiative is greatly appreciated, I would donate to the volunteers doing this if I could.

However the the map pool seems a little odd.

I am not alone with stats where 90% of my duels have been blood run or campgrounds. Even if I wanted to I could hardly find someone to play the other maps with at my level. Some of the maps I have played (t7, dm13) somewhat while the others I have played less than 3 times each.

I feel that a beginners tournament would benefit from using the most commonly played maps at that level and then branch out with the higher elo tournaments.